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Date:      Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:57:32 +0000
From:      myfreeweb <greg@unrelenting.technology>
To:        Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski@a9development.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Layerscape/QorIQ LX2160X
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On June 16, 2020 9:38:34 PM UTC, Dan Kotowski <dan=2Ekotowski@a9developmen=
t=2Ecom> wrote:
>> AHCI is looking better and better!
>> I'm going to do a little bit of poking at that
>> SATA HDD just to see how stable it really is=2E
>
>Well, it's definitely stable enough for lab use, that's a bonus=2E I caus=
ed myself a few headaches by doing stupid things that caused a series of pa=
nics, but all are easily attributed to human errata=2E=2E=2E
>
>Oddly the i2c bus is gone - any ideas what we changed that caused it to d=
isappear?
>
>https://gist=2Egithub=2Ecom/agrajag9/03d9f2f52084ef0ae1e64cbba190e062
>
>If I'm reading the DSDT correctly, then it should be hanging right off ac=
pi0=2E We can even see it in an older dmesg=2Eboot:
>
>i2c0: <Vybrid Family Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C)> iomem 0x2000000-0x20=
0ffff irq 7 on acpi0
>
>But now, nothing=2E=2E=2E

Probably because I deleted that i2c acpi attachment at some point, because=
 it didn't seem to actually work=2E=20

>Aside - since the builtin netifs are basically useless for us, any sugges=
tions on USB wifi dongles? I tried a few from my parts piles, but all of th=
em were unstable Realtek trash=2E I know Atheros chips are usually a good b=
et in Linux land - does that hold true in FreeBSD as well?

Not sure how common Atheros is on USB=2E=2E Ralink is fine I think? Actual=
ly Realtek wifi shouldn't be unusable too=2E=2E

For USB Ethernet though, I recommend the "Nintendo Switch compatible" ASIX=
 chips (axge)=2E


By the way, did you get any different firmware builds in the meantime? Tha=
t don't have everything suspiciously routed to the SMMU in IORT=2E=2E



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